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We create interesting and fun short stories using this website:



Explanation Video


Link to EXPLANATION Lots of English activities and worksheets to help you.

EXPLANATION WRITING

Stories to listen to with questions to check your reading skills.
Radio New Zealand site - lots of New Zealand authors.
9 part story with discussion sheets and worksheets. Try the interactive games here.
Listen to actors read a story. Then try some of the worksheets.

Storybud - Listen and read stories on line




StoryNory - Listen and read stories on line.



WRITING

Writing at Home.pdf

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Over 1 million story starters to get your imagination going.

Lots of word, reading and spelling activities
Lots of writing and language activities to help your story writing and reading.

WORD and SENTENCE games


Reading Detective Game - Find the Character



READING
In class we build up our reading skills by using Reciprocal Reading.

This site will take you to information on Reciprocal Teaching

This video shows some young children being taught about Reciprocal Reading strategies.






Reading Resources
These links will take you to many resources to help you with your reading.

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• Finding, Select and Retrieving Information
• Capital letters and Full Stops
• Punctuation
• Punctuation - Splat Game
• Punctuation - Trapped
• Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
• Make a Conclusion, Deduction or Assumption
• Making grammatically correct sentences and structures
• Find and Understand the Main Ideas
• Read Quickly to Skim and Scan
• Know What Different Words Mean
• Make inferences (guesses) about what is happening

• Understand and organise, or order text

• To feel for the characters

This site has activities that you can do.
You may print off the worksheets and put into your Reading/Spelling book.

• Reading and Quizzes to help you move onto your next level (you may print these out).

Working on word and letter skills.
Theo's Letter Game
Blending Bowl
Stories to read and listen to
Listen and Read

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• Blending sounds together - Blend Game
• Spelling Game - Letter Bug
• Spelling Game - Space Trash
• Keyboard Spelling - The Big Kahuna
• Find the Word - Pounce

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ENDING SOUND GAMES

• Word ending - Base Word Baseball
• End Sound Game
• Fish 'Em Up
• Roy the Giraffe - Words ending in -ck
• Worksheets to print out
• Game Room

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• To use expression when reading aloud
• Click the link to STORYLINE ONLINE to hear narrators using expression.
• Use PhotoBooth programme to record yourself reading. Use the headphones, save the recording and then listen to yourself reading aloud. How can you improve your expression?

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• Finding the "Main Idea" in a paragraph.
• Finding and using "KEY WORDS".

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• Reading Comprehension - Looking in the text for answers to questions.
• This link Interactive Reading Comprehension has many activities to help your reading comprehension. At the bottom of the page there are Test Practices. Use these to check your progress and work on your next learning steps.

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Writing Resources
These links will take you to many resources to help you with your writing.

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• Develop improved use of capital letters and full stops.
• Continue to work on spelling skills in written work.
• Sentence Games
• Simple Sentence Maker
• Make a sentence - different levels.
• Sentence Games - lots of games.
• Sentence Structures - lots of games.
• Develop longer sentences to make them more complex, joining together ideas.
• Continue developing the use of extended punctuation such as, commas, speech marks and exclamation marks.
• Myth Maker - Brainstorming machine
• Continue developing the use of adjectives to increase the descriptive personal voice in writing.
• Personal voice.
• Proofread to check ideas and check spelling and punctuation.
• Introduce paragraphing to show new ideas into the writing process.
• Paragraphing game
• Paragraphing video & game.

A great site with lots of sentence and writing games.

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SPELLING

Spelling City Website

Students & Parents, You should study using this great teaching resource. VocabularySpellingCity makes learning your word lists fun and easy.
Here is a fun place where you can learn your weekly P.L.L. words.
Click on the link here to enter Spelling City: Spelling City
Once you are in Spelling City you can start straight away.
You do need to click the Add 5 words to make your list bigger.
Here is a snapshot of the Spelling City screen with instructions.

spelling_city.jpg

Good luck learning your words and have fun.